§ Mrs. HumbleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out, including statistical information, the effect on the Blackpool, North and Fleetwood constituency of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [150719]
§ Mr. DenhamDetailed information on the impact of Department of Health policies nationally is set out in the Department of Health Annual Reports. A copy of the most recent report "Department of Health—Government Expenditure Plans 2000–01" is available in the House of Commons Library and on the Department of Health website at www.doh.gov.uk/dhreport.
The impact of policies is not examined by constituency and statistics collected centrally by the Department are not collected on a constituency basis.
My hon. Friend's constituency falls within the geographical area covered by North West Lancashire Health Authority and Blackpool social services authority.
Increases in allocations between 1996–97 and 2001–02 for North West Lancashire Health Authority are shown in the table.
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Increases in allocations between 1996–97 and 2001–02 Increase £ million (cash) 100.8 £ million (real terms) 64.3 Percentage (cash) 38.7 Percentage (real terms 22.9 Note:
Increases for 1999–2000 onwards are for unified allocations which cover hospital and community health services, prescribing and discretionary family health services. Those for previous years cover hospital and community health services only.
North West Lancashire health authority has also received additional funding for certain policies. This includes: £450,000 for accident and emergency modernisation at Blackpool Victoria Hospital NHS Trust; £25,000, £147,000. £296,000 and £199,000 for improving cancer services (breast, colorectal, lung and cancer outpatients) in 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00 and 2000–01 respectively; £27000, £3.8 million, £160,000 and £345,000 in 1997– 98, 1998–99, 1999–00 and 2000–01 respectively to reduce waiting times and lists; £1.8 million to expand critical tare services in 2000–01; £0.6 million in 1997–98; £1.9 million in 1998–99 and £0.7 million in 2000–01 to deal with winter pressures; £1.3 million in 2000–01 and £4.4 million in 2001–02 for developing intermediate care services; and £178,000 for heart disease services in 2000–01. For 2001–02, the authority plans to spend £1.9 million more on heart disease services, including drugs, from the real terms funding increase highlighted.
In 1997–98, dental practices in the Blackpool, North and Fleetwood areas received more than £160,000 through the Investing in Dentistry initiative. In 2001, Blackpool town centre will receive funding for a personal dental services pilot aimed at improving access across the town.
In addition, my hon. Friend's constituents will benefit from the new £30 million Phase V development at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Blackpool local authority came into existence on 1 [...]pril 1998. Its personal social services standard spending assessment for 2001–02 is £31.646 million.
In addition to its SSA, Blackpool has received additional funding in the form of a number of special and specific grants as set out in the table.
£000 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Special Transitional Grant1 1,422 — — — Partnership grant2 — 944 793 1,071 Prevention grant2 — 72 106 1,071 Carers' grant3 — 72 175 240 Children's grant3 — 237 379 979 Mental Health Core grant 173 293 350 4444 Training Support Grant 86 197 270 4311 1The special transitional giant ended in 1998–99 2The partnership and prevention grants have been combined in 2001–02 and called the promoting independence grant 3The carers' and children's grants were introduced in 1999–2000 4Indicative allocation